Pushkin and Maturin (from the Commentary on the Eighth Chapter of Eugene Onegin)

The article looks at Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” establishing allusions to Charles Maturin’s “Melmoth the Wanderer”, which have never been studied in connection with Pushkin’s text before. The author arrives at a conclusion that the character of Tatiana is created with references to Immali-Isidora, whereas a parallel between Onegin and Melmoth turnes out to be secondary and existing only in the heroine’s literary outlook.

The complexity of Immaly’s character is reflected in the structure of Tatiana’s character which is based on two dialectically contrasting elements, being a combination of a natural simplicity and aristocracy, romantic passion and Christian ethics.

Keywords

Pushkin , “Eugene Onegin”, Plot Structure, Maturin, “Melmoth the Wanderer”, Byronism, Russaeuism

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28.04.2020

Publication date

30.04.2020

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35449

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GOST	Krinitsyn A. Pushkin and Maturin (from the Commentary on the Eighth Chapter of “Eugene Onegin”) // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2020. – V. 79. – Issue 2 C. 19-29 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S241377150009503-6-1 (circulation date: 27.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S241377150009503-6
MLA	Krinitsyn, Alexander B "Pushkin and Maturin (from the Commentary on the Eighth Chapter of “Eugene Onegin”)." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 79.2 (2020):19-29. DOI: 10.31857/S241377150009503-6
APA	Krinitsyn A. (2020). Pushkin and Maturin (from the Commentary on the Eighth Chapter of “Eugene Onegin”). Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 79(2), pp.19-29 DOI: 10.31857/S241377150009503-6

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